A Book of Discovery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Book of Discovery, credited to M. B. Synge, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Book of Discovery, by M. B. Synge. Read by Kristine Bekere. Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne, of silent toil, of courage and resolution unequalled in the annals of mankind, of self-sacrifice unrivalled and faithful lives laid ungrudgingly down. Of the many who went forth, the few only attained. It is of these few that this book tells. (From the Preface of the book).

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Book of Discovery
• Author credits: M. B. Synge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 75
• Listed recording duration: 16:29:43

Catalogue topics

• history
• geographical discoveries
• M. B. Synge

Opening tracks: first 24 of 75

1. 00 - Introduction — 12:19
2. 01 - A Little Old World — 14:53
3. 02 - Early Mariners — 16:59
4. 03 - Is the World Flat — 12:15
5. 04 - Herodotus the Traveller — 15:43
6. 05 - Alexander the Great Explores India — 25:41
7. 06 - Pytheas Finds the British Isles — 10:58
8. 07 - Julius Caesar as Explorer — 13:15
9. 08 - Strabo's Geography — 10:20
10. 09 - The Roman Empire and Pliny — 10:47
11. 10 - Ptolemy's Maps — 5:24
12. 11 - Pilgrim Travellers — 9:41
13. 12 - Irish Explorers — 9:33
14. 13 - After Mohammed — 8:29
15. 14 - The Vikings Sail the Northern Seas — 9:44
16. 15 - Arab Wayfarers — 17:23
17. 16 - Travellers to the East — 14:08
18. 17 - Marco Polo — 18:51
19. 18 - The End of Mediaeval Exploration — 12:41
20. 19 - Mediaeval Maps — 5:37
21. 20 - Prince Henry of Portugal — 19:54
22. 21 - Bartholomew Diaz Reaches the Stormy Cape — 8:34
23. 22 - Christopher Columbus — 14:48
24. 23 - A Great New World — 11:26

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